Russian World severs up two slices of clanking, snapping, whizzing, and grinding electro-industrial soundscaping, which are both urgent and atmospheric.

This is a three-inch CDR release from Florida’s Inner Demon Records. The monochrome sleeve features a high-constant photo of what looks like spiky leafed plants- it looks fine, though personally, I can’t see the connection with the sounds inside….I think more mechanical-bound sci-fi imagery would have been much better, but I know that wouldn’t have fitted in with the labelled house style.

The Platonoff project is from  Saint Petersburg, Russia. It’s been active since 2020- releasing so far six all but one of these all on Inner Demon Records.

We open with the just under twelve-minute title track- this is a wonderful layered blend of hissing and snapping tones, wooshes and ragged tank track judders, pips & bays. With touches of baying evil robot talk in its first few minutes, and a rewarding selection of electro purrs, pluse simmers,  chops, and purrs. It feels akin to watching a bank of machines churning out lines and lines of robot people- to march, meld and attack.

Next, we have the track “Putlag” which runs at just under the nine-minute mark. This is slightly less layered/ more atmospheric- as we find a blend of slurred purring electro drones and brooding ebbs, sometimes with a backbone of chopping ‘n’ slicing techno-industrial tone making, sometimes just murky electro ambient to taut synth drone wrapped. This track feels like some twitching and jerking robot is slowly scanning and analysing your body- maybe ever so often slicing your skin with its micro-lasered limbs.

I’ve always been a sucker for sci-fi electro sound scaping- so I very much enjoyed what this three-inch offered up. I’ll be keeping an eye out for new work from the project on Inner Demon Records, and will defo check their back catalogue on IDR.